Nearly two weeks later Dudley received an owl bearing a parchment with a date and time scrawled in Harry's messy handwriting. "August 25, 10:00 on Charing Cross Road. A place called the 'Leaky Cauldron' Abigail will be the only one of you two to see it." His note was followed by what looked to be a standardised 'Harry Potter' signature identical to the others he had received over the years.

Dudley called Abigail down and told her the news. She hurried to circle the date on the calendar excitedly. After being begged to by Abigail Dudley scrawled back a letter requesting if they wanted to come to supper that evening so that Abigail could meet with Lily again. Dudley had tried to reason with her that it was only 3 days away but she said she had been parted with Lily for nearly 6 now.

Shortly later they received confirmation that the family of 5 would be joining the small Dursley family that evening for supper. Abigail hurried to put away her toys while Dudley busied himself preparing a meal worthy of guests. The hours pasted quickly and soon the doorbell rang.

Abby launched herself at the door only pausing to say a curt 'hello' to Harry and Ginny before launching herself at Lily. "You have to come upstairs and see the new toy my dad bought me last week."

Dudley popped out of the kitchen. "Dinner will be ready in about 20 minutes. Why don't you bring the two boys to play too." He said the last part as less of a question and more of an order.

Ginny nudged Lily. "Right these are my brothers; James and Albus. James is the one going to Hogwarts this year. He's a huge prat so I'm not to torn up." At that Harry and Dudley burst out laugh while Ginny swatted the back of her daughter's head.

"Be nice. Have fun playing." She turned to hand Harry her cloak when James made a rude gesture at Lily. "James Potter I swear to Merlin if you don't behave you and I can go right back home." James muttered an apology and scurried off to play with the other children. Ginny smiled sweetly at Dudley and thanked him for inviting them for the meal and accepted the drink he offered her.

The adults quietly chatted; Ginny and Harry helped to answer as many of Dudley's questions as possible. Once in awhile from upstairs there was a yell or loud bang but the noises kept the parents content that their children couldn't have been getting into too much trouble. After several minutes though the house was completely silent except for the adult's conversation.

Ginny looked over at Harry concerned. "Oh no. No good comes when James is quiet. I'll check it out." She rose from the table at the same time as Dudley did the same to check on the meal. She went up the stairs as silent as possible suddenly the eerie silence was broken by Abigail and James giggling together. Opening the door she spotted the trouble. James and Abigail had turned Albus bright green.

At the opening door Lily turned frantically and turned red in shame while Abigail and James giggled louder. "Mummy I tried to stop them but James said he'd turn me colours if I said anything."

Ginny clearly struggling to keep her anger in check pulled out her wand and changed Albus to his normal colour before turning to James. "JAMES SIRIUS POTTER HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU NOT TO TOUCH YOUR FATHER'S WAND?! AND HARASSING YOUR BROTHER AGAIN..."

Downstairs Harry was listening to his wife holler when he heard to wand part. He quickly checked his pockets and sighed loudly. "Oh that boy." With Dudley hot on his heels he sprinted up the stairs. Once in Abigail's room he snatched his wand from James' hand before picking up Lily and grabbing Albus and exiting quickly not wanting to be around an angry Ginny. Harry was always cautious because it was his wand and from past experiences he knew her anger could quickly turn towards him.

Abigail looked at her father guiltily. Ginny had stopped yelling and was dragging James down the stairs to apologise to his brother. Dudley just looked at Abigail before asking about her involvement softly.

"It was my idea to turn him green." Abigail's eyes wandered to the floor too scared to face her father. "James had the wand. I wanted to see magic and he said Albus was a Slythersnake or something."

"That is no excuse." Dudley scolded her. "I think that you will have extra chores for the next week to make up for this. No more of this you hear. Behave." She hugged him and apologized. "Its not me you should be saying sorry to."

The father and daughter walked downstairs where Albus was glaring at James and James was just pouting. Everyone was quiet except a chattering Lily. After Abigail apologised the whole 'prank' incident seemed to be put into the past as everyone got to chatting again over food.

"So unicorns and dragons are real?!" Abigail asked astounded. She could have never imagined that her childhood dreams of riding a dragon or unicorn could actually come true. "Could you fly on a dragon?"

Harry began to answer her question while Ginny and Lily were busy telling Dudley of all the different witches apparel, but James excitedly interrupted. "My dad rode a dragon once with my Aunt Hermione and Uncle Ron. Before that he fought one off with his bare hands."

"They are mean buggers though Abigail. Not like the ones you are imagining I am sure. They can't talk and definitely are not friendly." Harry said adding on to James' exaggeration.

James and Albus snorted at the talking part. Albus muttered about the ridiculousness of talking dragons and comparing it to a talking pig. "I was a dragon once for Halloween. So I was a talking dragon." Abigail snapped to defend herself.

Albus opened his mouth to argue back but Harry stopped them. The conversation turned back to normal with the other 3 joining back in and Lily excitedly absorbing every detail of the conversation relating to the muggle world.

As the meal wrapped up and the children started to get quieter and quieter Harry and Ginny excused themselves thanking Dudley for such a great meal. With the children bundled in cloaks they bid goodbye and affirmed the Diagon Alley date.

*A/N I know boring chappie. Sorry. And MY goodness sorry for not updating in forever. To make it up I promise by Monday you will have another chapter. Oh right; I own nothing. If I did I'd be nice and publish a book 8. :D